erro installing steam on ubuntu 14.04 with GNOME
Are you attempting to install Steam through the terminal using the following command?
sudo apt-get install steam
If you are, I strongly advise against it. To get the latest version of Steam installed in Ubuntu, please head here and click Install Steam Now:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
This will download a file that ends in .deb. All you need to do is double click it, and it will open up the installer.
The file should look something like this:
Read and Agree to any EULA that may appear (may require a tick), and it should start updating. This installer should also install any required 32bit libraries that Steam needs to run. Steam should then open, and you're done.
Still Unable to Launch Steam
If, for whatever reason, you cannot get Steam to run after this, then please run Steam through a Terminal. All you need to do is type this in a Terminal and hit Enter:
steam
This should post any errors that are causing Steam to fail to launch. More often than not though, it will simply request your permission to install the required 32bit libraries. Enter your password and type in 'y' when requested. Once it's done, you should be golden.
libGL.so.1 Missing
Please note that your libGL.so.1 missing problem is most definitely related to your graphics drivers. It would help to let us know the specs of your computer, specifically your CPU and Graphics Card brand and model number.
Also important to know, is what type of graphics driver you are using (Open Source or the Binaries). You can check for most of this information by going to Ubuntu's About This Computer (System Settings -> Details).
Please also post the output of this command so we know where your libGL.so.1 files are:
locate libGL.so.1
Hello @funkygiblets, there's two parts to this issue.
The first part is Ubuntu's package manager detected something with the package management wasn't sane and stopped before more harm could have been done.
The second half is the lack of 32 bit libGL.so.1, which effectively means that you were missing a 32 bit opengl driver. Steam is a 32 bit opengl application and needs a sane video driver installed.
If you're still seeing this issue on an up to date system, it's probably best to reach out to your distro's community for help troubleshooting the package manager issue. Closing as this was a general Ubuntu issue and not related to steam.
Nothing extracted yet.
when i try to install steam the terminal says:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
gnome-control-center : Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 : Depends: libglapi-mesa:i386 (= 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4)
unity-control-center : Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
Press return to continue:
when i continue an error message appears and says
You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libGL.so.1
when i quit that pop-up the installer says
Fatal Error :failed to load steamui.so
and thats all it does, i am very new to linux/ubuntu(installed it today haha) so any help is greatly appreciated